Professor Antonio Piñero is in charge of answering the question: Was Jesus aware of his death? In three of the four Gospels, Mark, Matthew, and Luke, a prophecy of Jesus about his future passion and resurrection is repeated three times. Apparently Jesus knew, as a divine plan and from all eternity, that he must go up to Jerusalem, be delivered into the hands of sinners, suffer a horrible death and then rise again. However, the vast majority of interpreters admit that this prophecy is only presumed because it does not match at all with the behavior of the followers of Jesus after the death of their teacher. How is it possible, if they knew exactly what was going to happen, that they fled Jerusalem? Why don't they believe the women when they tell them that Jesus had risen? It does not marry at all that people who were living with Jesus and who had heard him say repeatedly that he would die by divine design and that later he would rise again with that behavior of absolute disbelief before the resurrection of Jesus.
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What is the prevailing philosophical background in the first century?
Could Jesus be homosexual?
Was Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem?
Religious keys to 1st century Judaism that help us understand Jesus
Sociopolitical keys of Judea in the first century
What was the office of Jesus?
Was Jesus a Jewish Nationalist?
Was Jesus a bigamist?
What aspects of Christianity appear in previous pagan traditions?
What do we know about the lost years of Jesus?
Was the Virgin a myth that came from older cultures?
What do we know about the Virgin Mary?
Where does the story of the Magi come from?
What is the origin of Christmas?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
